City of light...

Playlist
Garbage – Absolute
Handel – Chill With Handel
Del Amitri – Lousy With Love
The Three Sounds – Live at the Lighthouse
David Reilly – Anthology 1977-2007 (Vol 6 1996-1997)
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Ersatzreal Companion EP #2
Aqualung – Memory Man
Status Quo – Gold
Alice Cooper – Along came a Spider
Udo Lindenberg - Stark wie Zwei
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Reinhardt Richter Rosenquist
Jackie McLean – New Soil
Jackie McLean – Ten Albums on Shuffleplay
The Beatles – Yesterday (Best of CD-R)

Up at six, despite last night’s carousing, and on to the PC to update the Crispycat Website and issue the August Newsletter relating my releases over the last three months...



Then, uploading more tracks to the Crispycat Library for free download...

Breakfast with Anne around 10 am whilst listening to a few CDs and discussing the draw for the UEFA Cup – Queen of the South are playing a Danish side and we’ll be off to the home leg which is being played in Airdrie but the away leg clashes with a prior arrangement...

In the post, a card from my godson Ansem Sonnenschein who’s on holiday with his dad on the island of Sylt in the northern most part of Germany...

His message includes a drawing of himself in a racing car saying “Hi God-dad”...

Sweet...

Also in the post, a voucher for some caramelised biscuits, the small ones you sometimes get with coffee in coffee shops – I contacted the company, Lotus, via their website as their biscuits are the best in the business and they’ve given me a free pack by way of this voucher...

Tasty...

Finally, a new CD – the brilliant alto saxophonist Jackie McLean’s 1959 album “New Soil”...



On checking the date on the back of the cover to write the sentence above, I was reminded of why I bought this – it’s the Blue Note session closest to my birthday, the album having been recorded on 2 May 1959, just two days before I emerged into the world to write this drivel from the age of 45 onwards...

Suffice to say the music is superb!!

It soundtracked our journey into town this afternoon to see the film “Paris” directed by Cedric Klappisch...



I loved this film – some reviews say there are too many characters and not enough story but, for me, it was just perfect and is catapulted into my imaginary list of fave films...

And of course many of the locations were fresh in our minds following our trip to the City of Light just six weeks ago...

We emerged around 3:30 and I saw everyone on the street in a new way, wondering what their stories were – although I’m sure this’ll pass and I’ll soon fall asleep again...

Back home and spent a couple of hours researching directions on Google Maps for an upcoming trip while keeping an eye on Queen of the South failing yet again to win their first game of the season – 0-0 at home to Airdrie Utd and so 7th on alphabetical placing re teams with one point......

Then, in the company of The Beatles (influenced by their use as background at Bell’s Diner last night), we drove out to Penicuik for dinner with Creek cohort and photographer to the stars (front page of the Evening News last Friday – plus recent and upcoming assignments on Tom Waits, Henry Rollins, Ed Byrne, Kenny Richey, Michael Barrymore etc etc), Mr Stuart Cobley, along with his lovely sister Lesley and her husband Paul, whom we visited a couple of weeks back...

A delightful meal was enjoyed at the Peni Deli, followed by a drink at the nearby Old Crown Inn – which included a rather drunken and raucous Karaoke which did not entice your correspondent – and Anne could not be persuaded to repeat her excellent rendition of “Always on your Mind”...

Lifts home for everyone, with promises to do it again soon and of a Creek get together in late Autumn, were followed by a swift return to base and bed...

Highlight of the Day : The whole day really – filled with highlights